Stace says she has noticed more activity — including more authors — on the Google+ social network. Google+ is fully integrated into Google search, meaning content shared through Google+ is easier to find and contributes more to a user’s online discoverability.

Lance has been contributing to the Criminal Element group blog for the past two months. Run by Macmillan, Criminal Element is a publisher-agnostic, magazine-style blog covering all aspects of mysteries, true crime and thrillers, including book previews and reviews, discussions of old and new TV shows and films, true crime stories, and quirky stuff. Its sibling websites Tor.com (for spec fic) and Heroesandheartbreakers.com (for romance) do roughly the same thing for their genres.

14 MARCH READING LIST

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Who we are

We are a support group for writers. Although we exist primarily as a writing critique group, we exchange information about writing-related events, conferences, seminars, and the like. Occasional meetings might be devoted to a guest speaker.

Meetings: Every Thursday, 6:30-9 p.m. at Panera Bread, 13205 Jamboree Rd, Tustin (at Irvine Blvd. on the west side of Jamboree).